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# backbite

«backbite» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **not there** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

to speak badly of someone when they are not there [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/backbite/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Psalms and Proverbs it means a secret, spiteful way of talking against others. Interpretation: Tradition counts evil speech, called lashon hara, as a grave wrong. It teaches that a person should not speak ill of others even if it is true.

### examples

- With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth. (Writings PSA.35.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/backbite/#x1)
- The north wind bringeth forth rain, and a backbiting tongue an angry countenance. (Writings PRO.25.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/backbite/#x2)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.545/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «backbite» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/backbite/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.